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Avnet Embedded Intros Ampire Standard Displays with Cover Lens and Projected Capacitive Touchscreen

Avnet Embedded, a business group of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region ofAvnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), recently introduced the Ampire standard range of displays with Cover Lens and Projected Capacitive Touchscreen. Sizes consist of 4.3” / 5.0” / 7.0” / 10.1”. Cover lens thickness reaches up to 4mm with black s. Screen printing of … Read more

Matrox C-Series Chosen to Power New Video Wall and Digital Signage Systems

Matrox Graphics today announced that Exxact Corporation has chosen Matrox C-Series™ multi-display graphics cards as the heart of three new video wall and digital signage systems. One of the new systems, the Exxact MPX3000 with Matrox C680 inside, will be presented at InfoComm (Orlando, June 17–19) in the Matrox booth 4053. Additional Exxact systems will … Read more

Lenovo Challenges Google

Lenovo has unveiled a bevy of new devices at an event in Beijing, including a Chromecast rival. First are three new laptops for consumers: the Z41 and Z51 are for multimedia use, and the Ideapad 100 for simple (read: basic) functionality. The Z models are 14″ (Z41) and 15″ (Z51), with 1920 x 1080 resolution … Read more

Caution About Signage Future in DACH

OVAB Europe’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index tracks the sentiment of the industry in several regions across Europe. Most recently OVAB has released the May/June results for the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Sentiment fell 8.2 percentage points from the last survey in March, to 51.35. This accompanied a slight (2%) fall in the … Read more

Oculus Acquires Surreal Vision

Surreal Vision team

Oculus has announced its acquisition of Surreal Vision, a UK-based company which has been working to refine software that can accurately and quickly build 3D maps of physical environments, which it calls simultaneous location and mapping. Financial details were not disclosed. Surreal Vision describes itself as a “team of computer vision scientists tackling the most … Read more

Foxconn Looks at India for Expansion

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said that the company is aiming to develop between 10 and 12 facilities in India, and could spend “a few billion dollars” on them. “A lot of our customers, especially Chinese customers, need us to manufacture…in India, to make phones, tablets, TVs, as soon as possible”, Gou said in an … Read more

27″ High-Res LG Monitor Makes Quiet Appearance

A new LG monitor has appeared on the company’s Australian website, with no accompanying announcement. The page is currently pretty sparse, with only the key features of the monitor listed. It is a 27″ unit with UltraHD resolution and is called the 27UM67. As well as 99% sRGB coverage, an IPS panel and 10-bit colour … Read more